animer
French, verb/a.ni.me/
animer is spelled A-N-I-M-E-R (6 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Animer is a French verb meaning “to animate (give something life)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Douer de vie un corps organisé”.
What does animer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to animate (give something life)
- 2
to animate (give vigour)
- 3
to animate (draw animation)
- 4
to spur on
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Douer de vie un corps organisé. 2. Douer de vivacité, de mouvement, d’une sorte de vie. 3. Donner de la force et de la chaleur à un ouvrage d’esprit, à un discours, soit par les traits vifs et brillants que l’on y jette, soit par la manière vive dont on le lit, dont on le prononce. 4. Encourager, exciter.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of animer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- animant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- animé participle past
- anime first-person indicative present
- animes indicative present second-person
- animons first-person indicative plural
- animez indicative plural present
- animent indicative plural present
- animais first-person imperfect indicative
- animait imperfect indicative singular
- animions first-person imperfect indicative
- animiez imperfect indicative plural
- animaient imperfect indicative plural
- animai first-person historic indicative
- animas historic indicative past
- anima historic indicative past
- animâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce animer?
- /a.ni.me/
- \a.ni.me\
- [a.ni.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to animer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is animer in French?
animer appears 4.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).